The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval English Guild Culture

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.

Author: C. Fitzgerald
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/19/2007
Series: New Middle Ages
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.29h x 6.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781403972774